Delivering the Goods
Entrepreneurs are setting up shop in the nation's urban food deserts.
Social Issues - Articles
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The Emerging Market Era
A "reverse innovation" guru provides anecdotes and advice about how to succeed in emerging markets.
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Techno-Optimists Beware
Two books argue that entrepreneurs and technology are transforming the global economy.
The End of Polio in India
An immense cross-sector partnership is responsible for the immunization success story.
Leveraging Research for China
The Rural Education Action Project uses its studies about China’s poorest places to influence government policy.
Elizabeth Littlefield
Elizabeth Littlefield heads up OPIC, a federal agency that helps steer billions of dollars of private investment capital to developing countries.
Get Feedback
It is essential to build direct consumer feedback into funding criteria for government and nonprofit programs serving low-income people.
What’s Sex Got to Do with It?
An inconvenient truth is hiding behind the current excitement about educating girls.
A Big Deal for Conservation
A group of conservationists, former bankers, and management consultants have imported ideas from Wall Street to create a new way to protect large ecosystems.
Personal Attention Reduces Poverty
Circles, a national program for helping families get out of poverty, taps an underused resource: middle-class support groups.